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No. 3 of 1890.

Minúte of

MAGISTRATES.

doing any act or thing required to be done or left undone, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same;

(4) a warrant of distress shall not be deemed void by reason only of any defect therein, if it is therein alleged that a conviction or order has been made, and there is a good and valid conviction or order to sustain the same, and a person acting under a warrant of distress shall not be deemed a trespasser ab initio by reason only of any defect in the warrant or of any irregularity in the execution of the warrant; but this enactment shall not prejudice the right of any person to satisfaction for any special damage caused by any defect in or irregularity in the execution of a warrant of distress; and

(5) all goods forfeited by order of a magistrate may be sold in such manner as the magistrate may direct.

29.—(1) In all proceedings under this Part the magistrate proceedings. at the hearing shall take or cause to be taken in writing a full minute, so far as circumstances permit, of the following

Schedule. Form No. 13.

Register of

cases.

42 & 43-Vict. c. 49, s. 29.

matters:-

(a) the nature of the complaint or information;

(b) the names of the complainant, informant, or prosecutor, and of the defendant, 'and of the respective witnesses, on either side;

(c) the evidence or depositions of the witnesses; (d) objections to the admissibility of evidence and whether the same have been allowed or disallowed; and

(e) the fines, if any, paid into court.

(2) The minute shall, immediately after the close of the case, be handed to the magistrates' clerk for safe custody.

30.—(1) The magistrates' clerk shall keep a register of the minutes or memoranda of all the convictions and orders. of the magistrate and of such other proceedings as are Second directed by the rules in the Second Schedule to be registered, and shall keep the same in Form No. 60 in the First Schedule and with the particulars prescribed in the said Form No. 60. rules or form.

Schedule.

First Schedule.

* As amended by Law Am. Ord., 1923.'

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